Sun Mote Copse you stay on my mind

Wraen had not the slightest suspicion that any of the kids could act like jerks towards Eljay, least of all his own children. Then again she had conveniently forgotten, what it meant to be a teenager, and with them striving for more independence and need to test the boundaries, they could find an easy target in this insecure man. They could hurt him unintentionally, even if it meant to feel better for themselves for five minutes or so. Time would show.

"Excellent," she accepted Eljay's cautious offer and decided for herself that she will remind him of it later. This was a too good opportunity to let pass, now that she had got him out of his hermit shell for a bit. With this settled there was a danger of running into the "nothing to say to each other" territory. For a moment she was tempted to ask, what it was like to be a male-midwife, but feared that this topic would immeadiately remind him of Wildfire and therefore she abstained from it. Instead...

"What do you know about plants?" she went back to the subject. "I have been blessed with good health and grass has been an all-around medicine for any maladies I have happened to have," she explained. "But I heard that Raven trained you and she is a skilled medic."